Meaning in the brain /
Baggio, Giosuè,author.
When we read a text or listen to speech, meaning seems to be given to us instantaneously, as if it were part of the input. In Meaning in the brain, Giosuè Baggio explains that this is an illusion created by the tremendous speed at which sensory systems and systems for meaning and grammar operate in the brain. Meaning, Baggio argues, is not derived from input but results from the brain's internal construction process. With this book, Baggio offers the first integrated, multilevel theory oof semantics in the brain, describing how meaning is generated during language comprehension, production, and acquisition. Baggio's theory draws on recent advances in formal semantics and pragmatics, including vector-space semantics, discourse representation theory, and signaling game theory. It is designed to explain a growing body of experimental results on semantic processing that have accumulated in the absence of a unifying theory since the introduction of electrophysiology and neuroimaging methods.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Relational semantics -- The binding problem in semantics -- Neural bases of relational semantics -- A dynamic theory of semantic binding -- II. Interpretive semantics -- From binding to interpretation and back -- Brain systems for discourse and logic -- Discourse models as corticle stable states -- III. Evolutionary semantics -- Signaling and the evolution of meaning -- Plasticity in the brain's semantic system -- Brains as meaning transmission machines -- IV. Synopsis -- Meaning in the brain.
When we read a text or listen to speech, meaning seems to be given to us instantaneously, as if it were part of the input. In Meaning in the brain, Giosuè Baggio explains that this is an illusion created by the tremendous speed at which sensory systems and systems for meaning and grammar operate in the brain. Meaning, Baggio argues, is not derived from input but results from the brain's internal construction process. With this book, Baggio offers the first integrated, multilevel theory oof semantics in the brain, describing how meaning is generated during language comprehension, production, and acquisition. Baggio's theory draws on recent advances in formal semantics and pragmatics, including vector-space semantics, discourse representation theory, and signaling game theory. It is designed to explain a growing body of experimental results on semantic processing that have accumulated in the absence of a unifying theory since the introduction of electrophysiology and neuroimaging methods.
Meaning (Psychology)
Semantics.
Psycholinguistics.
Meaning (Psychology)
Psycholinguistics.
Semantics.